Chinese Red Army

The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, also known as the Chinese Red Army, was the armed forces of the Communist Party of China. The army was led by Mao Zedong and Zhu De from 1928 to 1945, and it consisted of a mere 5,000 troops when it was formed after the Nanchang Uprising. However, it would reach 1,000,000 troops in 1945, with its numbers being organized into four armies. The Red Army took part in the campaign against the Kuomintang from 1928 to 1936, engaging in many encirclement campaigns and the Long March, and the Red Army would later be forced to unite with the KMT against Japan in 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1945, the People's Liberation Army was formed after the end of the war with Japan, succeeding the Red Army.